[osis-core] Regex News!

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick,

Should we reserve a few of the other "special" characters that we might
need for later use, like "(", ")", "%", "*", "+", "&", "^", "?", "#",
";", "{", "}", "~", "`", and ","?

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:30 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: [osis-core] Regex News!
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> The new addition to the regexes reads as follows:
> 
> |(\\[^\s])
> 
> This means that any single character (excluding space, including all
> Unicode (which means PUA) can be used in any of the OSIS regex
expressions.
> 
> Must be preceded by a "\" if the character is one of the ones we have
> reserved for use in ID or REF syntax.
> 
> Those characters are: ".", ":", "!", "[", "]", "@", "-" and "\".
> 
> This is only for the portion following the prefix, which is terminated
> by a ":".
> 
> All applications are required to recognize the "\" as an escape
> character applying to the single character that follows it.
> 
> Hope everyone is having a great day!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --
> Patrick Durusau
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> Society of Biblical Literature
> Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
> Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
> Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
> 
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